To highlight text in pdf files, I select the text and hit the highlight button:
The default was yellow highlight. Somehow, it got changed to a red underline. How can I change this back to yellow highlight again?
asked Mar 29, 2018 at 1:52
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Adding this comment for those coming from google with the situation I was in: Preview in Mac was stuck on "strikethrough" mode, and every use of the "highlight" keyboard shortcut actually applied "strikethrough." The answer below fixed it for me.– MyerCommented Nov 7, 2019 at 10:21
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The Preview help mentions:
Use highlight mode: Click the Highlight button (so it turns blue), click the down arrow next to the Highlight button, then choose a highlight color, underline, or strikethrough. Now, whenever you select some text, the highlighting style you chose is automatically applied to the text.
So de-select any text in an open PDF. Click the Highlight button - nothing should be highlighted additionally in your PDF now - click the down arrow and choose a color or strikethrough.
You can also determine several different highlight colors in a single PDF with this method (here yellow, pink and underline):
answered Mar 29, 2018 at 13:28
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1It worked! That is so counterintuitive, Apple should provide a separate button to select the default color– filippoCommented Jul 19, 2019 at 13:40
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+1 The "de-select any text" part was what helped me, after having tried this method multiple times with some text selected.– pelaCommented Nov 23, 2020 at 7:51
The trick is that the Highlight defaults to the last font/type you used in the Note. Delete the notes and do again with the right Highlight
I activated the Highlight button and, with that activated, I chose the new highlight color (yellow) - and whoa! Now the highlight color is yellow and I need not use the button every time, but only my mouse/pen.
